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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."
"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."
"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."
"A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries."
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
"We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them."
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
"For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later."
"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."
"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
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